Speaker Biographies

Mark DeFoe

Mark DeFoe's ninth chapbook, Ten Scenes with Mocking Bird, won the 2009 Tennessee Chapbook Award sponsored by Poems and Plays. His work has been widely published and anthologized, appearing in Poetry, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Paris Review, New Letters, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Poetry Ireland Review and many others. He was winner of the 2005 Chautauqua Literary Journal's national poetry competition. In 1998 and 2003 he was awarded Individual Artist Grants from the WV Commission for the Arts.

He lives with his wife Jeanne, a pianist, in Buckhannon, where he is Professor Emeritus of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

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